{"id":19276,"date":"2026-02-23T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/patel-responds-to-olympics-backlash-says-he-was-invited-to-locker-room-after-hockey-game\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:22:11","slug":"patel-responds-to-olympics-backlash-says-he-was-invited-to-locker-room-after-hockey-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/patel-responds-to-olympics-backlash-says-he-was-invited-to-locker-room-after-hockey-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Patel responds to Olympics backlash, says he was invited to locker room after hockey game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed critics of his presence in the locker room during the U.S. men&rsquo;s hockey team&rsquo;s celebration of their gold medal game victory over Canada on Sunday. Patel, who was in attendance in Milan, Italy, was captured on camera in Team USA&rsquo;s locker room on the final day of the Winter Olympics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5750297-patel-joins-us-hockey-gold\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed critics of his presence in the locker room during the U.S. men&rsquo;s hockey team&rsquo;s celebration of their gold medal game victory over Canada on Sunday. Patel, who was in attendance in Milan, Italy, was captured on camera in Team USA&rsquo;s locker room on the final day of the Winter Olympics&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}